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The group structure of non-Abelian NS-NS transformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-27 v2

Abstract

We study the transformations of the worldvolume fields of a system of multiple coinciding D-branes under gauge transformations of the supergravity Kalb-Ramond field. We find that the pure gauge part of these NS-NS transformations can be written as a U(N) symmetry of the underlying Yang-Mills group, but that in general the full NS-NS variations get mixed up non-trivially with the U(N). We compute the commutation relations and the Jacobi identities of the bigger group formed by the NS-NS and U(N) transformations.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5317,
  title  = {The group structure of non-Abelian NS-NS transformations},
  author = {Bert Janssen and Airam Marcos-Caballero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5317},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Latex, 11 pages. v2: Typos corrected; version to appear in JHEP.